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A judge has criticised the Home Office for ignoring Britain’s sieve-like borders that “encourage Romanian criminals to enter the country”.

Judge Sean Morris expressed frustration after being told that Romanian authorities were taking up to seven months to provide criminal records of their nationals, making it hard to inform UK sentencing.

The judge, who is Recorder of Lincoln, said that he would simply “lock up” Romanian criminals until their country provided the information.

The disproportionate number of Romanian criminals passing through his court would only increase if nothing were done before EU immigration changes next month, he said, and he